美国国家公共电台 NPR College Art Professor Challenges Students To Build Insect Motels

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: At the University of Wisconsin, some students are blending art and science to create hotels that might save disappearing insects. Susan Bence of member station WUWM explains. SUSAN BENCE, BYLINE: Every year, lecturer Katie Martin-M

美国国家公共电台 NPR From Pez To Ticks, 'Atlas Obscura' Discovers 'Wonderfully Specific' Museums

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: There are museums, and then, there are wonderfully specific museums. We're talking about such institutions as the American Toby Jug Museum, the German Watering Can Museum and, of course, the U.S. National Tick Museum. All of thes

美国国家公共电台 NPR Meet Frédéric Bazille, The Impressionist Painter Who Could Have Been

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: A little known 19th century French painter is having a big show at Washington D.C.'s National Gallery of Art right now. And the reason he's not well known is a sad one. NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg brings us the story

美国国家公共电台 NPR Activists Build Human Rights Abuse Cases With Help From Cellphone Videos

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The war in Syria is a conflict of the social media age. Cellphones are ubiquitous among the rebels, the government, even ordinary citizens. And that means almost no bad deed goes unrecorded. As NPR's science correspondent Joe Pal

美国国家公共电台 NPR Total Failure: The World's Worst Video Game

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Today we meet Howard Scott Warshaw, the man behind one of the early failures of the computer era. HOWARD SCOTT WARSHAW: I did the E.T. video game, the game that is widely held to be the worst video game of all time. SIEGEL: The A

美国国家公共电台 NPR Tituss Burgess Says He Plays The Most 'Everyman' Character On 'Kimmy Schmidt'

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The first Harry Potter book came out 20 years ago today. And before there were multimillion-dollar movies, Sorting Hat Halloween costumes and temporary tattoos of a lightning scar, there were just two books published in England tha

美国国家公共电台 NPR On Harry Potter's 20th Anniversary, Listen To His NPR Debut

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The first Harry Potter book came out 20 years ago today. And before there were multimillion-dollar movies, Sorting Hat Halloween costumes and temporary tattoos of a lightning scar, there were just two books published in England tha

美国国家公共电台 NPR With Chemistry And Care, Conservators Keep Masterpieces Looking Their Best

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: That painting you see on the wall of an art museum is the product of the artist and the times in which he or she lived. It is also the result of today, no matter how old it is, a major museum's conservator's work to keep the art

美国国家公共电台 NPR Senate Republicans Alter Health Care Bill To Avoid 'Death Spiral'

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Congressional forecasters say a Senate bill that aims to repeal and replace Obamacare would leave 22 million more people uninsured by 2026. That's only slightly fewer than a House version that passed last month. That forecast com

美国国家公共电台 NPR Trial Nears For Minnesota Police Officer Who Shot Philando Castile

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Jury selection is starting today in St. Paul, Minn., for the trial of a policeman charged with killing an African-American motorist. Philando Castile was the man shown on live video as he was dying in a car. Here is Matt Sepic fro

美国国家公共电台 NPR Adult ADHD Can't Be Diagnosed With A Simple Screening Test, Doctors Warn

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The World Health Organization has endorsed a six-question screening test for ADHD in adults. Now, this is catching a lot of people's attention because, with symptoms like distractedness and disorganization, it can be pretty tempti

美国国家公共电台 NPR Uprooted By Conflict, Stuck In Limbo, Yearning For A Place To Call Home

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And we have heard the stories of refugees making long, often treacherous journeys across oceans and continents to escape war at home. But here's a reality - most people displaced by conflict never even leave their own countries. I

美国国家公共电台 NPR Remembering The Great Poet Gwendolyn Brooks At 100

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Gwendolyn Brooks would have turned 100 next month. She was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize. And on the centennial of her birth, a new biography of the late poet is out this week. Here's Karen Grigsby Bates of o

美国国家公共电台 NPR Fifth 'House Of Cards' Season Speaks To Trump Era

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now to television. People often talk about life imitating art. But over the past few months, how many times have you talked about the news out of Washington and somebody said, this is so House Of Cards? Well, the fifth and latest

美国国家公共电台 NPR These Short Films Shine A Spotlight On Sexual Harassment

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A male boss brushes up against his female employee. Off the record, a male politician makes suggestive remarks to a female reporter. Those are just a couple of examples that may be all too familiar to some career women. Pro

美国国家公共电台 NPR 100 Days In, Women's March Still Inspires. But Can The Enthusiasm Hold?

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There's been a lot of focus on Donald Trump's first 100 days. But the same weekend that Donald Trump was inaugurated, there was another major news event. Thousands of people turned out for the Women's March on Washington, a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Help Wanted: The Trump Administration (Still) Has Some Openings To Fill

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: To push his agenda forward, President Trump will need one thing he doesn't have enough of yet, staff in key positions. President Trump has fewer appointees in place than any of his recent predecessors. Only a fraction of th

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ladies And Gentlemen, The Revolution: Prince's Band On Reuniting And Healing

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally today, let's talk about Prince. Music lovers are still mourning the artist's death last April. And those paying tribute often return to one monumental work, Purple Rain. The album and the film won three Grammys and an Osc

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Indecent': A Play About A Yiddish Play That Was Ahead Of Its Time

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Nominations for the Tony Awards come out Tuesday. Among the favorites for best play is Paula Vogel's Indecent. Paula Vogel is one of this country's most acclaimed contemporary playwrights. She got a Pulitzer in 1998. This year she'

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'It Is Neither Nor, It Is Both': Tom Hanks Finds No Easy Answers In 'The Circle'

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Not trying to be nosy, but have you posted anything on social media today? Maybe you took a pic of your tasty brunch, maybe you sent out a video of your child's latest steps, maybe you sent up a flare about a faltering relationsh